昨日(2月22日)の午後、40年近く連れ添った夫が他界しました。65歳でした。 わたしの人生で最大の幸運は夫に出会ったこと。 そして最大の悲しみは彼を失ったことです。 我が最良の理解者であり、ベストフレンドであり、一緒に人生を歩み続けたパートナーだった。僅か1週間前にはここ自宅で私の近くに座り会話を交わしていた人が、今はいない。彼はもうこの家に帰ってくることはない。まだ実感が湧かずにいます。 みなさん、多くの優しい言葉をかけてくださり、ありがとうございました。

Our polar bears get ready to take a cold plunge.

I have to remember to wait until people tell me an actual date before I say I can't go . . . always have had trouble with that.

Choir of creaking stairs Singing through the silent house Their low morning song

Early stroll. That house with all the lights on. A sign shouts DIVERSION ENDS. A walking man pauses to gaze at the pub door. Double yellow lines like attention-grabbing shoelaces. A palette of birdsong colours.

The shop is open when I arrive; the shopkeeper is sorting the papers. No sign of Fred. The shopkeeper and I both agree that one of us will win the Euromillions tonight. As I step outside, a plane is passing.

The Joy of Street Furniture, Trumpington

Afterglow at Luskentyre, Harris, Scotland, photo by Verity Milligan @veritymilligan.bsky.social.

First cup of tea: the opening notes of the day’s symphony.

under dark pines the miller’s wife fills her basket with moon-pale mushrooms #UnknownFairyTales #tanka

big house on the hill windows blazing after dark adrift on black seas

Artists, quote with something silly!

You are my favourite quote from a book I haven't read.

Happy dog 🐾My big senior girl happily going in for an afternoon snack today. She chose not to eat breakfast and so at lunch she woke up immediately with this face as I went in to give her her favorite chewy.

GM 🖤 Hope you slept well and maybe even experienced something magical ✨️

Only with the right enticements.

Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates ceramic figures #womensart

Were the consequences even worthy of there being an action. We asked several unintended nicknames and "blockbuster cards magic trick that no eye can return" had this to say

Put! It! Back!

Meeting the devastation halfway.

F285 Anchor falls on fairies.

it’s been a while since i popped into the test version of spirit crossing and im so happy the dysfunctional bears have joined the party 🥹 (do i know anyone else playing this rn??)

The night the way the rain explains it.

It’s Monday February 16th let’s start the week off with a #cup of tea #thingstowriteabout

Your Tuesday Crow. ✨

old friends reading side-by-side the same book in their own worlds #DailyHaikuPrompt (friend) #ThingsToWriteAbout (read)

a green-shadowed wood light coming in from nowhere is pigeonwing blue

starlings in the ash chanting the whole sky awake small gaps between clouds

Seeing lots of folks new to bluesky or returning after a long absence, so worth a reminder that you can increase your reach here by including alt text on your book promos or art! It is also a very kind and thoughtful thing to do in a world desperate for kindness and care💜

blank notebook secrets I've never told myself #DailyHaikuPrompt (note)

One of Huddersfield's more unusual street names. According to local historian George Redmonds, Solid derives from 'soliht' meaning a place "growing with willows" in Old English

SONG (Anagram-Haiku) Deep moonlight reveals the older poems leaving me, their pale song loved.

dying i said to the doctor take care oyoguhito #haiku haikueye.blogspot.com

Part 1 of my @suffolknews.bsky.social spring cookbook roundup is in print today and online tomorrow! I've written about Ed Smith's Peckish, Melissa Thompson's Fired Up, Soomaaliya by Ifrah F. Ahmed and Viennese Bakery by Bernadette Wörndl. My newsletter will have an extended roundup too.

Nazgul was robbed. He should have got a medal

Good night, Bluesky! Spectacular sunset over Bainbridge Island and Puget Sound, from Alki Beach, Washington 📸Theresa Arbow O'Conner

In the realm of the aesthetic ... even imperfection and lack of completion have their value. Robert Musil, "Address at the Memorial Service for Rilke in Berlin" (1927)

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another. Anton Chekhov

- learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees. Ursula Le Guin

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Chekhov

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

Throwback Thursday Gimli pup (he/him) realizing sometimes you are too tired to deal with the world. #corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky

I catch her doing this a lot lol.

every Olympic event should include wolf dogs

My controversial football take is that you should peel the ball like a banana

chi is for bearer of the golden rod

it is nice to think that when i die, i’ll be led to where i’m going next by a funny, friendly god bsky.app/profile/tiny...

The fleeting shadows of wings.

do you want to tell me a ghost story about it